by David Flint
At an emergency meeting of the Berlin School Board on Wednesday evening the Board approved an immediate action plan to deal with the problem of lead paint at Berlin Elementary School. Although there was much disagreement and uncertainty expressed about intermediate and long term solutions, the Board agreed that the plan for immediate action proposed by Interim Superintendent Brian Howard was necessary.
The plan includes the following:
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Archives for October 2010
Berlin Saves $450k On Bridge Replacement
Resourcefulness Pays Off
by Kieron Kramer
Before the meltdown towards the end of the Berlin regular Town Board meeting on October 14 when the offer to purchase the Berlin Lumber property was raised [reported in last week’s issue of the Eastwick Press] the meeting was a recital of good news for the Town.
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Petersburgh And Berlin Families Visit Their Roots
by David Flint
Two hundred and forty years ago a church on the coast of Rhode Island, concerned about members who had migrated west, sent their pastor, John Burdick, along with Deacon Elisha Stillman, on a mission – to visit the departed members, first in Farmington, Connecticut, and from there “to Little Hoosick and places adjacent where our brethren and Sisters chiefly reside… and inform them that if they are United and established in the Faith of the Gospel, the Church hereby informs them that they have the Liberty to choose them an Elder and the Church is free and willing to lend them all necessary assistance in their power for their furtherance and Establishment in the Faith of the Gospel.”
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Profiles Of The Candidates For The Stephentown Town Council
BCSD Superintendent Search
by David Flint
The Berlin School Board has selected Orion Educational Consulting LLC of Rochester to conduct a search for a new Superintendent. Robert Heinkel representing this firm in a presentation to the Board at a special October 6 meeting, said it would be a 3 to 4 month process. The firm does only one search at a time and during that time he would be in regular communication with the Board. At their October 19 meeting the Board passed a resolution to appoint Board Member Beverly Stewart as contact person, and they set up a meeting for November 3 to meet again with Heinkel and get the search started. Interim Superintendent Brian Howard suggested that it be specified that the new Superintendent would come on board sometime in June following the budget vote.
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Town Of Hoosick Holds Line On Taxes
by Bea Peterson
The Hoosick Town Board put the finishing touches on the 2011 budget at its workshop meeting on Tuesday, October 26. A public hearing on that budget was scheduled for Thursday, October 28, at 7 pm. Basically, there will be no increases in the Town portion of the next tax bill. Councilman Bob Ryan noted facetiously that there was an increase. It is .007 percent.
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Grafton Planning Board Action – October 2010
by Bea Peterson
The Grafton Planning Board session on Monday, October 18, began at 6 pm with Public Hearings on an Ed Chilson/Clear Brook LLC four lot subdivision, a Jennifer Contessa two lot subdivision and a Site Plan Review of a meteorological tower to be installed by Gamesa Energy. The Contessa subdivision on Fox Hollow Road sailed through the public hearing, noting only that a small piece of the property, about half an acre that is in Petersburgh, cannot be subdivided.
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HFCS BOE Approves Siege Club
by Alex Brooks
The Hoosick Falls School Board monthly meeting began with a presentation from Science Teacher Anthony Malikowski about the HFCS team’s experience building a machine to compete in the recent pumpkin chunkin’ contest at the Pumpkinpalooza Festival. Their machine, called Grape Shot, won the contest, and the students who participated were so fired up they wanted to do more of this kind of thing. Malikowski proposed a Siege Engineering Club and talked of organizing interscholastic competitions for siege machines. The Board approved the new Club later in the meeting.
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Top Students Are Recognized For Academic Excellence
Gloria Martinez and Tiffany St. Hilaire, two students from Hoosick Falls, were recently honored at a statewide awards ceremony for gifted children held by The Johns Hopkins University Center for Talented Youth (CTY) on October 9 at Siena University.
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NYS 43rd District Senatorial Candidate Visits Hoosick Falls
by Bea Peterson
Saratoga County Supervisor and small business owner Joanne Yepsen attended the Hoosick Democrats pre-election rally Sunday afternoon, October 21, at the Sand Bar. Yepsen is running for the NYS 43rd District Senate seat now held by Republican Roy McDonald. [Read more…] about NYS 43rd District Senatorial Candidate Visits Hoosick Falls